MUSIC 150 Lecture Notes - Martial Solal, Mccoy Tyner, Ragtime
Document Summary
Jazz is an american way of playing music. It is also a repertory which formalizes its various stages of development into classical styles which musically articulate authentic. The written literature of jazz has continually evolved out of informal improvisations and has crystallized the musical elements and devices which characterize each of these classical styles. The crystallization of these elements and devices has been aided by piano rolls, phonograph records, radio broadcasts, tapes, and other recording devices, both aural and visual. Jazz, a unique american phenomenon, is america"s classical music. As a musical language, it has developed steadily from a single expression of the consciousness of black people to a national music which expresses americana to americans as well as to people from other countries. As a classical music with its own standards of form, complexity, literacy, and excellence, jazz has been a major influence on the music of the world for more than eighty years.
